Brazil sees rapid rise in land conflicts, Catholic agency reports

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 registered the highest number of land conflict incidents in Brazil since 1985, the Catholic-affiliated Pastoral Land Commission reported. The commission said in a recent report that the country saw an average of more than four conflicts over land daily throughout the year. The report tallied 1,576 conflicts, an increase of... Read More

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June 4, 2021

A promise of transparency, support after Kamloops school discovery

Archbishop J. Michael Miller of Vancouver announced a plan to offer increased support and transparency to First Nations people in the wake of the discovery of an unmarked burial site near a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. “The Church was unquestionably wrong in implementing a government colonialist policy which resulted in devastation for... Read More

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November 28, 2018

Religious leaders in Colombia form coalition to defend rainforests

Religious leaders in Colombia promised to step up efforts to prevent the destruction of rainforests in the South American country, as they launched a coalition known as the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative. After meeting with scientists and indigenous leaders at the Jesuit-run Pontifical Xaveriana University, the group of more than a dozen faith leaders called on... Read More

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August 15, 2018

Jesuit priest killed in Peru

A Spanish Jesuit missionary priest working amng the indigenous people in Peru’s Amazonia regions has been killed. The body of Father Carlos Riudavets Montes was found last Friday morning with his hands tied and several stab wounds lying in the kitchen of the Valentín Salegui school he ran in Yamakai-entsa district in the Amazonian jungle... Read More

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May 30, 2017

Pope, Trudeau talk about reconciliation with Canada’s indigenous people

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he asked Pope Francis to help Canadians “move forward on a real reconciliation” with the country’s indigenous people “by issuing an apology” on behalf of the Catholic Church for its role in harming their communities. The prime minister spoke to a handful of reporters in Rome’s Villa Borghese Park... Read More

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